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Job growth in the United States continued at a solid pace in July, with the economy adding 209,000 new jobs, the Labor Department said Friday. Economists had expected an increase of about 230,000 jobs. The unemployment rate was 6.2 percent, up from June's 6.1 percent. It has declined from a peak of 10 percent in October 2009, driven by job gains and a shrinking labor force. Employment has now grown above a 200,000-jobs pace for six straight months for the first time since the technology boom in the late 1990s. The results improve upon June when nonfarm payrolls blew past expectations and rose by 288,000 new jobs. Data for May and June were revised to show a total of 15,000 more...

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